Love's Eclipse...

Were you to ask it query it seek it the answer to my heart is there shade on the eve of love indeed, there is a shade like mountain's umbra a gloom cast from the deep a shadow that cloisters clutches croons in one's ear sorrow of the like one wishes experience only once if at all There is a time to be glad, but not on this eve... Today, we experience love's eclipse a respite from charm and wonder a delay of inevitable passion a somber slow seething slump into a chasm of finite eternity where seconds last years and moments are lifetimes but not cherished times not a calm before the storm it is despair before victory the long sigh of anticipation as one is disemboweled waiting for death's promise a metaphorical death of all our hopes and dreams as the queen of night suffocates our sun on high we dream a waking nightmare but know it only lasts the night And suddenly like the snapping of a finger it appears not sound but light a pinprick and though small it envelopes one's whole mind a shard of light like a rope of hope penetrating your soul you know it the eclipse draws to an end A sliver of its radiant face the sun peeks round the corner of doom smiling wanly at first but as the eclipse abates you know the warmth the curling of fingers around fingers eyes connected you see them as if having waited centuries to see them, despite it being first sight embracing, you are taken adrift into a flight so free that wings are an inconvenience arm in arm with your lover you cascade out into reality up and down and down and up the eclipse is no more love is free a breeze so firm and sweet that your lungs feel brand new your chest swells with pride you're found and you have found together, you and your lover, ascend heaven's heights and dream of eclipses no more Bound in freedom free in mind and soul hearts as one under the sun despair no longer takes its toll...

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